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September 19, 2017

MIT Media Lab's Human Dynamics group won first prize in predicting layoff in the Fragile Families Challenge (kaggle like prediction challenge). We are 9th in predicting GPA, and 5th in predicting job training. Eaman Jahani did really well in predicting Grit (3rd place) and Material hardship (ranked 7th).

June 3, 2015Patient Privacy Rights (PPR) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2015 Louis D. Brandeis Privacy Awards, Dr. Masao Horibe and Dr. Alex Pentland. Dr. Horibe is the Chairman, Specific Personal Information Protection Commission, Government of Japan, and Professor Emeritus, Hitotsubashi University. He has made substantial contributions to protection of personal data and privacy for over 50 years. Dr. Pentland is the Toshiba Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Co-founder, MIT Media Lab, and Advisor to the United Nations Secretary General's Office and the World Economic Forum. In 2012, Forbes named him one of the "seven most powerful data scientists in the world." Additional information about the illustrious Brandeis Award recipients is available at http://patientprivacyrights.org/2015-summit-speakers/.

February 6: Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland has been elected to the National Academy of EngineeringAcademy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to “engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering literature,” and to the “pioneering of new and developing fields of technology, making major advancements in traditional fields of engineering, or developing/implementing innovative approaches to engineering education.”

February 11:Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland has been elected tothe advisory board of the Harvard Business Review

Tuesday, February 18:Audio from Brookings Institution / Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland, Darrel West, Cameron Kerry, Aneesh ChopraThe Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution will host an event to discuss social physics and the uses of big data in providing explanations for human behavior. A panel of experts will examine the applications of social physics in a variety of fields and provide examples from different industries to illustrate how social physics are already changing the way we understand our world.After the program, the panelists will take audience questions.